CNA Staff, Jun 5, 2020 / 05:06 pm ( CNA ).- While saying that abortion regulation is a devolved issue, the British Minister of State for Northern Ireland emphasized at Westminster Thursday that any local changes to the region's abortion law would...

CNA Staff, Jun 5, 2020 / 02:30 am ( CNA ).- When the coronavirus pandemic gripped England in March, the Catholic National Shrine of Our Lady in Walsingham was forced to close and cancel pilgrimages. But rather than seeing this as a disaster, shrine rector...

CNA Staff, Jun 3, 2020 / 01:31 pm ( CNA ).- The president of the German bishops' conference has called for a synod in Rome that would discuss resolutions of the German "synodal process" at the level of the universal Church. "What arises...

Rome Newsroom, Jun 2, 2020 / 09:15 am ( CNA ).- Bishops in Northern Ireland have strongly backed a call by a campaigner with Down syndrome to reject a law permitting abortion up to birth on grounds of disability. The bishops spoke out ahead of a June...

CNA Staff, Jun 2, 2020 / 06:30 am ( CNA ).- Catholic publishers in the United Kingdom are turning to social media and online sales in an effort to survive the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on their businesses. Pierpaolo Finaldi, CEO of the Catholic...

CNA Staff, May 30, 2020 / 04:30 pm ( CNA ).- An English cardinal will ask Sunday why the government has failed to set a date for churches to reopen when it is lifting lockdown restrictions on car showrooms. In a homily May 31, Cardinal Vincent Nichols...

CNA Staff, May 29, 2020 / 05:30 am ( CNA ).- When it is working at full capacity, the altar bread department at St. Cecilia’s Abbey produces millions of hosts a year, bringing revenue to the community of Benedictine nuns on the Isle of Wight, an...

CNA Staff, May 28, 2020 / 04:32 pm ( CNA ).- An auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Cologne has announced he is no longer participating in the "Synodal Forum" on sexuality that is part of the "Synodal Path" underway in Germany....

Rome, Italy, May 28, 2020 / 12:00 pm ( CNA ).- Walking toward St. Peter’s Square, one sees sign after sign posted on the closed doors of religious gift shops and other local businesses with large red letters stating: “Without help from the...

CNA Staff, May 28, 2020 / 08:30 am ( CNA ).- The island of Guernsey will permit what may be the first public Masses in the British Isles since the coronavirus lockdown Monday. While churches remain closed across the United Kingdom, authorities in Guernsey...

CNA Staff, May 28, 2020 / 06:00 am ( CNA ).- The Vatican has ordered the prominent Italian Catholic layman Enzo Bianchi to leave the monastery he founded in 1965. The Holy See made the ruling in a decree dated May 13, signed by Vatican Secretary of State...

CNA Staff, May 26, 2020 / 11:02 am ( CNA ).- A book considering how homosexual couples might receive a formal, liturgical blessing of their union in the Catholic Church was written in response to a request from the liturgical committee of the Austrian...

CNA Staff, May 26, 2020 / 08:00 am ( CNA ).- A record number of people left the Church in the German Archdiocese of Munich and Freising last year, a local statistical office said Tuesday. The Munich statistical office told CNA Deutsch , CNA’s German...

CNA Staff, May 23, 2020 / 02:00 am ( CNA ).- Catholics are calling for a public investigation into why so many elderly people have died in U.K. nursing homes during the coronavirus crisis. More than 20,000 people have died in U.K. care facilities as a...